A policeman has been slightly injured after his BMW collided with a car while on Ladysmith Road in Grimsby.

The traffic patrol BMW estate is believed to have been responding to an emergency and was under blue lights and using its siren when it struck a Toyota being driven by a woman at the junction with Fairmont Road.

One workman on nearby Cooper Road said: “I was making a call and I heard a bang. I didn’t see it happen.

“The police car had its blue lights on and its siren. It looked like the Toyota turned out a junction and then they went into each other. Everyone seems okay. The policeman got out okay and she looked fine from how she got out the car”

Emergency services at the scene of an RTC involving a BMW traffic police car and a Toyota Corolla Verso, at the junction of Ladysmith Road and Fairmont Road in Grimsby. (Image: Jon Corken/Grimsby Live)

Another witness said: “I was just putting my bin out, turned the other way, away from the road but then I saw the copper and the crash. It looked like he went into her. I think she just got hit.”

Another said: “I heard it, a loud bang. It is a woman in a black Toyota and traffic copper by himself. All the air bags were out. He was shaken up a bit, but she seemed OK. The ambulance came after.”

Police cordoned off Ladysmith Road after the accident and advised drivers to avoid the area. Police, firefighters and an ambulance were all called to the scene.

Emergency services at the scene of an RTC involving a BMW traffic police car and a Toyota Corolla Verso, at the junction of Ladysmith Road and Fairmont Road in Grimsby. (Image: Jon Corken/Grimsby Live)

In a statement shortly after the accident, Humberside Police said: “Officers are currently on Ladysmith Road, Grimsby following a collision involving two cars, one of which is a police vehicle.

“An officer, who was in the police car at the time of the collision, has suffered what is thought to be a minor injury.”

Police have been involved in three accidents in Grimsby in the last six months. In September a police car was involved in a serious accident in Barcroft Street after ploughing into a car passing through a junction.

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CCTV footage of the accident later emerged which appeared to show the police car pursuing another car at speed without its lights or sirens active and then colliding with a car as it drove across a junction.

And in February a police car and a private taxi were in a collision at the junction of Wellington Street and Albion Street Grimsby.

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